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copra - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun cobra, coprah , and copperah.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Com.) The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun dried kernel of the coconut , from which coconut oil is extruded .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Portuguese, from Malayalam koppara .]
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From Malayalam കൊപ്ര ("kopra").
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At St Lambrecht the POWs performed road works, bridge work and repairs to rail lines (e.g. at Mariahoff Railway Station) etc. They also unloaded bags of copra from the rail trucks at Mariahoff and placed them in storage sheds for the nearby dynamite factory.
Doug Nix 2010
The principal industry is the preparation and exportation of copra , which is very plentiful, although there is some little traffic in shark fins.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
One of the chief exports of the island is copra , which is the meat of the cocoanut, picked and dried at a certain stage of its growth.
Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Edgar Fawcett 1885
The counts upon which whites have been deported are mainly four: cheating Tembinok ', meddling overmuch with copra , which is the source of his wealth, and one of the sinews of his power,' PEAKING, and political intrigue.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
Some oilseeds (such as copra ) have a fibre content which provides the friction needed to heat the barrel.
Chapter 5 1995
Large sized material, such as copra or palmkernels, must to be crushed into pieces of about 5 mm diameter.
5. Selected Equipment 1989
Leonetta did not know what "copra " was, but she thought it sounded sufficiently like a precious metal to suggest immense wealth.
Too Old for Dolls A Novel 1926
The beautiful cocoa-nut palm was plentiful, so much so that I wondered why there were no settlers to collect "copra ," or dried cocoa-nut, for oil.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
I wasn't hugely satisfied: I can think of other significant plants (the spices, coffee and cacao, flax and sisal, the coconut/copra ) whose trade has affected and continues to affect the world economy.
Linkspam for 12-10-2009 nwhyte 2009
Beneath her hatches she was crammed and jammed with pearl shell and copra .
THE HEATHEN 2010
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